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- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!agate!thor!dgreen
- From: dgreen@thor (David Greenebaum)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: Unique hypothesis--comments welcome!
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 19:20:23 GMT
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- References: <1992Nov17.224011.20690@Princeton.EDU> <28342@castle.ed.ac.uk>
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- I'm going to regret this...
- John Wexler writes:
- >Example: Fred is the only person known to me who has converted from the
- >Orthodox Church to Judaism. Fred is unique. Bert is the only person
- >known to anybody reading this newsgroup who has converted from the
- >Orthodox Chuch to Zoroastrianism. Bert is more unique than Fred.
-
- Okay. Mike Jacobs (made-up name) had a fatal heart attack last
- Thursday and was buried on Sunday. He is dead. Steingrim Steinkirksson
- (another made-up name) had his guts ventilated at the Battle of
- Stamford Bridge in 1066 and his corpse was picked apart by ravens on
- the battlefield. Is Steingrim more dead than Mike?
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